Blogger's Quilt Festival: Piece, Love, Twilight

We are excited to participate in the Blogger's Quilt Festival, hosted by Amy's Creative Side. The Blogger's Quilt Festival is an on-line tour of quilters in action. It is open to everyone with a blog and a love of quilting. If you'd like to participate, you can find more information here.

The quilt we are featuring for the Festival is Piece, Love, Twilight: A Quilt for Stepehnie Meyer. We created it as a tribute to her amazing series, the Twilight books.

We live scattered across the United States, Canada and even have a member in Australia. When we began work on this quilt we'd never met each other in person. We coordinated design and blocks on a thread at TwilightMOMS. We brainstormed ideas chose blocks that we thought best represented the books. Each of us signed up for blocks that interested us and when they were completed, they were to Elizabeth for assembly. When the top was complete, Elizabeth mailed the quilt to Vivian, who did a beautiful custom quilting job on it and then hand-delivered the quilt back to Elizabeth for binding and a label.

Elizabeth (l) and Vivian (r), July 8, 2009

When the quilt was finished, we entered it in the Springville Art Museum quilt show where it won Best Group Quilt with a $100 prize (which was donated to ALSF) and the Pacific International Quilt Festival.

Several of our group members came to visit the quilt while it was at the Springville Art Museum, but not everybody could meet on the same day.

(l to r) Wanda, Shannon, Elizabeth, Iris, August 2009

(l to r)Vivian, Shannon, Elizabeth, Iris, August 2009

This quilt was created by Twilight Quilters Coven members Cat, Elizabeth, Iris, Jerri Lynn, Joyce, Vivian and Wanda and former group members Jean and Shannon. We were even featured in the February/March 2010 issue of Quilter's Home Magazine. We sent the quilt to Stephenie Meyer in January of 2010 as thanks for the inspiration she gives to each of us.

Here are some close-up shots of the individual blocks (place cursor in the right hand corner to bring up play options to pause, stop, etc. the slideshow):

Block credits

Medallion Center:
Forbidden Fruit: pattern by Cat, piecing by Shannon
Broken Petals: pattern by Cat, piecing by Elizabeth
Eclipse Ribbon: design and piecing by Elizabeth
Breaking Dawn: design and piecing by Elizabeth

Miscellaneous:
Quilt layout, assembly and binding: by Elizabeth
Book Quotes: machine embroidery by Jerri Lynn
Machine Quilting: by Vivian

Top Row:
Forks Trees: design and piecing by Wanda
Charlie: pattern by Jennifer Ofenstein, design and piecing by Jerri Lynn
Vampire Baseball: pattern by Elizabeth, piecing by Wanda
Bella's Truck: pattern by Cat, piecing by Joyce
"My" Jacob's Paw Print: pattern by Cat, piecing by Jean

Left Column:
Vegetarian Vampire Eyes: traditional jewel box pattern, piecing by Jean
Carlisle & Esme: pattern by Jennifer Ofenstein, layout and piecing by Iris
Emmett & Rosalie: pattern by Linda Hibbert, piecing by Shannon
Jasper & Alice: pattern by Jennifer Ofenstein, Jasper fabric by Iris, piecing by Shannon
The Meadow: pattern and piecing by Iris

Right Column:
The "Other" Jacob: pattern by Jennifer Ofenstein, piecing by Joyce
La Push First Beach: pattern by Cat, piecing by Jerri Lynn
Bella's Bracelet: pattern by Cat, piecing by Joyce
Edward's Crystal Heart: pattern and piecing by Iris
The Volturi: Clock Tower at Volterra: pattern and piecing by Iris

Bottom Row:
And So the Lion Fell In Love With the Lamb: Lion pattern by Linda Hibbert, Lamb pattern by Four Twin Sisters, piecing by Shannon
Bella & Edward's Wedding Dance: pattern by Liz Schwartz & Stephen Seifert, piecing by Shannon
Isle Esme: feather pattern by Jennifer Ofenstein, layout and piecing by Iris
Renesmee's Locket: design and piecing by Joyce
Bella & Edward's Stone Cottage: pattern and piecing by Shannon

Our group also created a New Moon quilt for the release of the movie. The quilt was auctioned off for $850, all of which was donated to ALSF.

We are currently working on an Eclipse donation quilt, the proceeds of which will also go to ALSF. Check back for more details as the quilt unfolds.